JACKIE ROBINSON RESEARCH PAPER

Jackie Robinson and The Civil Rights MovementJackie Robinson played baseball at a time when teams were segregated. The Brooklyn Dodgers team manager Rickey, helped Jackie Robinson get into the Major League baseball team. This integrated the baseball for the first time in American history, allowing an African American to play with the Brooklyn Dodgers. ("Jackie Robinson Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 12 June 2013.) When Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in professional baseball, he became a civil rights activist, contributing to the Civil Rights movement. Before Jackie Robinson desegregated the Major League of Baseball, Black’s were segregated and discriminated against. The first baseball game between two all black teams was held on September 28, 1860 at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey.("ShadowBall-Negro Leagues." ShadowBall-Negro Leagues. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 June 2013.) When the civil war ended in 1865 black Baseball teams began to form in the Northeast. Major Leagues excluded Black players. Frustrated Black players formed teams all over. The Black Panthers was the first professional black team formed 1885 in Babylon, NY, the team was later renamed Cuban Giants so they could attract more White fans. This led to the organization of the negro league in 1887. Eventually, the league fell because there wasn't enough money to support the league.There was no ban on white leagues hiring Black players. Blacks continued to play on White teams despite the physical and verbal abuse from players and fans. All Black’s knew Baseball was a white mans game. ("Jackie Robinson Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 12 June 2013.) Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. (Jackie Robinson. Notable Black American Men. Ed. Jessie C. Smith. Farmington Hills: Gale Research, 1999. 1022-025. Print.) His parents were Jerry and Mallie Robinson. ("Jackie Robinson Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d....

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Born January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia, JackieRobinson became the first black player in the major leagues in 1947, signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Throughout his decade-long career with the Dodgers, Robinson made advancements in the cause of civil rights for black athletes. In 1955, he helped the Dodgers win the World Series. He retired in 1957 with a career batting average of .311. Robinson died in Connecticut in 1972.
Early Life
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. Breaking the color barrier, JackieRobinson became the first African-American to play in baseball's major leagues. The youngest of five children, Robinson was raised in relative poverty by a single mother. He attended John Muir High School and Pasadena Junior College, where he was an excellent athlete and played four sports: football, basketball, track, and baseball. He was named the region's Most Valuable Player in baseball in 1938.
Robinson's older brother, Matthew Robinson, inspired Jackie to pursue his talent and love for athletics. Matthew won a silver medal in the 200-meter dash—just behind Jesse Owens—at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
Jackie continued his education at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he became the university's first student to win varsity letters in four sports. In...

...JackieRobinson: Civil Rights and Baseball Icon
Dating back to Ancient Rome, segregation has remained a major part of society. Segregation can happen in many different ways such as racial or religious segregation. In the United States racial segregation was widely common after slavery due to Jim Crow Laws. One major event that helped to abolish segregation was baseball. Unsurpassed in popularity, baseball was a national craze during the 1860’s. It was commonly best referred to as America’s “National Past Time.” With its growing popularity, more and more professional teams were being established until in 1876 the first Major League was organized. As with most things during that time period, baseball was notably segregated. Although there were fully African American amateur and professional teams, there were no integrated teams until the 1940’s. JackieRobinson was the first African American to play in the Major Leagues and officially break the “color line.” JackieRobinson was a civil rights activist who not only broke the color barrier in sports but also questioned the deeply rooted custom of segregation and paved the way for future African Americans.
Early life experiences lead Jackie to make a difference in civil rights. During his college years Jackie took an interest in sports. “Robinson became an outstanding all-around athlete at...

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JackieRobinsonJackieRobinson, the best baseball player in the twentieth century, was the first African American to play in the Major League Baseball and opened up the generation for colored people to play baseball. He courageously changed and challenged the deeply rooted custom of racial segregation in both the north and the south. He also gave the African Americans a different focus for life then just stepping back and letting them get walked all over by the words form the whites. Jackie proved a lot from when he made major achievements in high school from a one parent family, to trying out for the Major Leagues. Then put in his will to create a foundation after he was deceased to help out teens that struggled through life like him.
JackieRobinson came from a hardworking single-parent family with the strength to shake the world. He attended John Muir High School and also Pasadena Junior College (JackieRobinson Foundation). At UCLA, Jackie became the first athlete to win varsity letters in four sports: baseball, basketball, football, and track (Official website). After he was turned away for wanting to play major league baseball, he put a lot of thought in to it and decided he needed to do something else first. He volunteered for the Army one year before war was declared and got sent on April 3rd (Mary 33). From 1942 to...

...of the 1900’s. JackieRobinson was no exception. He is important to American History as a ballplayer and figure to look up to. JackieRobinson will be remembered forever as the greatest African American hero that ever lived.
Mallie McGriff and Jerry Robinson were both born and raised near Cairo, Georgia. The parents of Mallie and Jerry had both been slaves. During the early 1900’s, slavery had only been replaced by sharecropping. African Americans were free only in theory. Jerry worked hard as a farmer and ended up abandoning his family six months after his final son was born. JackieRobinson was the fifth of five children born in Cairo on January 31, 1919. When Jackie was one year old, the Robinson family relocated to California in hope of a better life (Stout & Johnson 13-27).
The Robinsons lived in an all white neighborhood. As expected, a great deal of segregation was directed towards the African American family. Caucasian families of that Pepper Street neighborhood even attempted to buy out the Robinsons. Before entering school, Jackie was diagnosed with diphtheria and nearly died. After recovering, Jackie became obsessed with sports and was able to stand out from other students. Being much more athletic, white students often bribed Jackie to be on their team. Sports...

...sign a Negro player. JackieRobinson was that player and JackieRobinson changed the game, America, and history. By looking specifically at his childhood adversity, college life and the hardships he encountered by becoming the first black player in the game, it will be shown why JackieRobinson is a great American story and hero.
JackieRobinson was born in Cairo, Georgia to a family of sharecroppers and then moved to Pasadena, California. His mother Millie raised Jackie and four others single-handedly in a neighborhood where they were the only blacks on the block (Duckett 19). In Pasadena is where Jackie would first realize his color would bring him much grief and heartache in the many coming years. Here, Jackie grew up poor, on a good day he would get two meals a day, but usually depended on the leftovers his mother could bring home from work. Many of the whites in the neighborhood and surrounding areas would try to buy them out, beg them to move, and threaten them if they didn't. The Robinson's stayed strong and never budged as they were determined to stay (Duckett 21).
Jackie would move on to bigger and better things as Jackie stared in high school athletics and moved onto college. Pasadena Junior College was Jackie's first stop as he enrolled into a very liberal school which did...

... JackieRobinson
When a child thinks about history for sports, they will most likely think of the extraordinary JackieRobinson because of what he was capable of. JackieRobinson was a man honor and what he believed was right in his own eyes. He accomplished his dreams of becoming a baseball player that faced racism growing up. Many of the children across the globe would like to make a change in the world similarly to how JackieRobinson has done. JackieRobinson stood up and played baseball; but with that done, he changed the majority of citizen’s lives to play a sport no matter what color or race you are. Jackie Robinson’s greatest contribution to the game was his encouragement of others to break the color barrier of sports, a man who has demonstrated courage, and had outstanding averages that made him a great person in baseball overall.
Jackie Robinson’s greatest contribution to the game was his encourage of others to break the color barrier of sports. Jackie has first started off attending,” University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and became the first person in the school’s history to letter in four sports: track, baseball, football, and basketball. (Finkelman)” JackieRobinson entered college and...

...Question: JackieRobinson and Race in America
1. The breaking of the color line in baseball occurred when The Negro Leagues emerged to provide opportunities for “civic engagement, serving, for example, as a forum for the civil rights movement.” (p.7) This developed over the three decades after the 1920s. The Negro Leagues planted the seeds that would inevitable lead black players to integrate. Then in the early 1930s black sportswriters created a newspaper association to promote the Negro Leagues and also talk about the issue of integration. As this began to happen, white owners sought to earn large profits by renting the stadium for black teams to play in. They began gaining rich revenue and “licked their chops at the sky rocketing receipts from these operations and dreamed of black players who might make their own teams winners and, thus, big attractions to the gate” (p. 10). The idea of making large sums of money to the white owners gave them the vision to some day have integration not because of race, but because of the profits it would bring in. It was not until World War II when integration was being talked about all over baseball. The veterans and workers joined civil rights activist to promote the Double V campaign. This campaign was about having victory over racism both overseas and in the United States. “There was no logic in keeping blacks out of the major league, especially after they had served bravely in World War II” (p. 19). This...

...JackieRobinson once said, “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. “Jackie was the first African- American baseball player to win National League Rookie of the Year and the National League’s Most Valuable player of the Year. Jackie Robinson’s distinct challenge to accept the policies of the organized sports confirmed that change was possible and he deserves to be elected into the Hall of Fame.
The problems he faced in the early years of his life made him a stronger person. He was discriminated by the color of his skin. He lived during the time of segregation. He was the only black family on his block. His family also received threats when we joined the Major Leagues by fans, other teams, and even his own teammates. Most of his life he lived in poverty without his father. Jackie was raised by a single mother, Mallie Robinson. He was forced to move around the United States because of his living conditions. He was born in Cairo, Georgia, then moved to Pasadena, California after his father left Jackie and his family. After being drafted into the Army, Jackie was transferred to Fort Riley, Kansas. When JackieRobinson started Spring Training with the Brooklyn Dodgers, he relocated to Florida. He attended the University of California Las Angels(UCLA) and completed two years. After the two years he competed he...